The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1973) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3-12.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] The Soviet Union’s most important writer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, had already won the Nobel Prize for Literature three years earlier when he began to publish what he considered the major work… Continue reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago”
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Ron Wallace’s “Fielding”
Ford v. Ferarri
Ford v. Ferrari James Mangold (2019) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3-12.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] The Ford GT40 was the first car designed and built in the United States to win the storied 24 hours of Le Mans classic, and it ended up winning that… Continue reading Ford v. Ferarri
Miller Williams’ “Love Poem with Toast”
Panda Wok
Review No. 180: Panda Wok 2625 Donaghey Avenue (501) 329-8889 81.5 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said:He Said picked me up from the airport after I returned from a Las Vegas weekend with a high school friend. Even though I had eaten so much in Vegas that the city government wrote… Continue reading Panda Wok
Louise Erdrich’s “Future Home of the Living God”
Future Home of the Living God Louise Erdrich (2017) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tennyson-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’77’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] There’s no doubt that Louse Erdrich is one of the pantheon of American writers whose novels are always greeted with anticipation and excitement, who has produced so many critically acclaimed works over several decades that… Continue reading Louise Erdrich’s “Future Home of the Living God”
Harriet
Harriet Kasi Lemmons (2019) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tennyson-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’77’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] If you’ve been excited by the previews and waiting for the release of Kasi Lemmons’ new biopic of famed Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman, thinking that it’s about time somebody brought this inspiring story of American heroism to the… Continue reading Harriet
Las Palmas
Review No. 179: Las Palmas 786 Elsinger Blvd. (501) 329-5010 81.4 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: It must be admitted we are running low on Conway restaurants that are not part of fast-food chains, so we set about searching through our list and discovered this little gem among the fast… Continue reading Las Palmas
Wallace Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West”
Fresh Donuts
Review No. 178: Fresh Donuts 855 South German Lane, Suite 4 (501) 504-6037 80.9 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said:I came down with a cold that He Said so generously shared with me, so I was free eating and not exercising. This gave me the motivation and opportunity to add doughnuts… Continue reading Fresh Donuts